The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film directed by William Friedkin. It is based on the 1971 novel of the same name by William Peter Blatty. The film stars Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran, Jason Miller and Linda Blair. It follows the demonic possession of 12-year-old Regan and her mother’s attempt to rescue her through an exorcism.
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The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film directed by William Friedkin. It is based on the 1971 novel of the same name by William Peter Blatty. The film stars Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran, Jason Miller and Linda Blair. It follows the demonic possession of 12-year-old Regan and her mother’s attempt to rescue her through an exorcism conducted by two Roman Catholic priests. It was the first horror film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, winning for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Sound. In 2010, the film was preserved as part of its National Film Registry as being \”culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\”. It has had a significant influence on popular culture and has received critical acclaim, with several publications having regarded it as one of the greatest horror films of all time. The English film critic Mark Kermode named it as his \”favorite film of alltime\”. The film was the highest-grossing R-rated horror film, until the release of It in 2017. Several cities made efforts to ban it outright or prevent children from seeing it. Some viewers had adverse physical reactions, often fainting or vomiting, to scenes in which the protagonist undergoes a realistic cerebral angiography and violently masturbates with a crucifix. Many children were taken to see the film, leading to charges that the MPAA ratings board had accommodated Warner Brothers by giving the film an R-rating, instead of the X-rating they thought it deserved, in order to ensure its commercial success.
There were reports of heart attacks and miscarriages; a psychiatric journal carried a paper on \”cinematic neurosis\” triggered by the film. Regan begins acting strangely, using obscene language, and exhibiting abnormal strength; additionally, there is poltergeist-like activity in the home at night. Chris consults a number of physicians, but Dr. Klein and his associates find nothing physiologically wrong with her daughter, despite Regan undergoing a battery of diagnostic tests. One night when Chris is babysitting a heavily intoxicated Regan, Burke returns to hear that he has died falling out of the window. Although this is assumed to have been an accident, Chris believes that Regan’s aberrations are mostly psychological, believing that exorcism can be cured by believing that oneself to be possessed. The doctors, thinking that Chris’s mother’s death is a hoax, arranges for Regan to be cured. Chris is sedated and sedated. Regan comes downstairs unannounced, tells an astronaut – that he will die \”up there\” and then urinates on the floor. Chris hosts a party, during which Regan tells oneof the guests – an astronauts – that she will die up there, and then tells Chris that she is pregnant. Chris believes this is an accident and believes Regan is possessed.
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